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POPSGen. Petraeus discovers the Holy Land It seems increasingly clear that a thoroughgoing reappraisal of the U. S.-Israeli strategic partnership is in the offing. Much of the credit (or, if you prefer, blame) for that prospect belongs to John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, authors of the famous (or infamous) tract "The Israel Lobby." Whatever that book's shortcomings, its appearance in 2007 injected into discussions of U.S.-Israeli relations a candor that that had been previously absent. Convictions that had been out of bounds now became legitimate subjects for discussion. Prejudices were transformed into mere opinions.
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POPSal-Qaeda "suspect" worked at SIX nuke plants in U.S. Should be simple. If your name is "Sharif" or "Mohammed", etc., you do not get work in a nuclear power plant, or in the airline industry, or in the defense industry - stupid. Muslims are our enemies and should be regarded as such. They should be put to work cleaning our streets or sewers, and if they don't like that they are certainly free to return home to the shithole they came from.
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POPSEU, Arab League+ Slam Israel
The very same day USA VP Joe Biden arrived in Israel to promote ME peace talks, going to the PA the next day -- this after months of work -- Israel announced expanding its settlements, approved 1,600 new homes for in East Jerusalem. This typical 'fart-in-your-face' lack of diplomacy is typical. But Biden quickly responded, condemning Israel's actions. Hopefully the tide is turning and the U.S. being deaf, dumb and blind to Israel's evils: collective punishment, apartheid society, genocide in Gaza, nonstop warmongering against Arabs and Iran, etc. Note: The international community considers East Jerusalem occupied territory and building on occupied land is illegal under international law. But "the secret," is that Zionism is really an eviction notice for all Palestinians. It's one of the reasons al-Qaeda gave for 9/11 (if that info has been 'kept secret,' from you). After we finish killing and/or capturing Al-Qaeda leadership we should reconsider our blind support
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POPSMcCarthy Has It Right... Andy McCarthy, that is...
Being a military lawyer assigned to defend a particular serviceman, or to defend a particular terrorist detained before a military commission, is distinguishable from volunteering pro bono on behalf of yourself and your law firm on behalf of a terrorist detainee. McCarthy also considers just how wonderful for our nation those pro bono lawyers for al Qaeda terrorists are, and he finds a strong witness against them: Lindsey Graham. Here’s Graham in the Senate debate over the Military Commissions Act: If I could add one thing on this point: perhaps the best evidence that the current Rasul system undermines effective interrogation is that even the detainees’ lawyers are bragging about their lawsuits’ having that effect. Michael Ratner, a lawyer who has filed lawsuits on behalf of numerous enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay, boasted in a recent magazine interview about how he has made it harder for the military to do its job. He particularly emphasized that
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POPSBelgian trial of Al-Qaeda cell suspects underway Aroud, who is being held under high security, is the widow of one of the killers of Ahmed Shah Massoud, head of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. Massoud was assassinated in 2001 just days before the September 11 attacks against the United States. According to the Belgian federal prosecutor Aroud, an admirer of Osama bin Laden, led the recruitment of jihad fighters in Belgium, sending young Muslims off to train on the Afghan-Pakistan border.
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POPSNever should have gone THIS far! 
The three SEALs are Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew V. McCabe, 24 of Perrysburg, Ohio, Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathon E. Keefe, 25, of Yorktown, Va., and Petty Officer 1st Class Julio A. Huertas Jr., 28, of Blue Island, Ill. The petitions are going to Maj. Gen. Charles T. Cleveland, commanding general of Special Operations Command Central, who ordered the court martial after the three declined to take an administrative punishment that would have meant admitting guilt. Cleveland has the most direct role over the proceedings. The petition has also been sent to Adm. Gary Roughed, chief of Naval Operations. A letter circulated by Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) was sent Thursday to Army Major Gen. Charles T. Cleveland – commander of Special Operation Command Central, who ordered the court martial. “In our opinion, prosecutorial discretion should have been exercised,” the letter said. “Failing that, we respectfully and strongly urge you to exercise your leadership authority, stop the i
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POPSCheney Group Targets Lawyers You don't stop evil and it keeps spreading at getting worse. Republican Senators were talking about this today on TV. They want the names of lawyers who were assigned to defend Al-Qaeda suspects, to "expose,' them. These people support torture, which violates our Constitution, international treaties and the Geneva Conventions; now that they have gotten away with it they are on the hunt themselves, hunting for the lawyers who were assigned to provide 'fair trials." The sickness is growing. Several of the recent targets of the rabid right happen to also be black -- it seems to add to their enthusiasm for the rabid right witch hunts.....phony witch hunts by real ogres out to cover up their crimes and keep on with their evils. The sickness is getting worse.
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POPSGOP Reps.Want Charges Against SEALs Dropped Reps. Dan Burton, R-Ind. and Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. are holding a news conference Thursday with McCabe and more than a dozen retired Navy SEALs and other special forces personnel. Burton and Human Events, a conservative publication, have gathered petitions with more than 150,000 signatures demanding that the charges be dropped against the men. The SEALs were offered what's call administrative punishment if they admitted wrongdoing but that would have hurt their future as special operators. Rather than accept the reprimand, the sailors chose to fight the charges in a military court. They were arraigned in military court in December and the trials are set to begin in April for Huertas and Keefe, and in May for McCabe, who is charged with assault, dereliction of duty and making a false official statement; Keefe is charged with dereliction of duty and making a false official statement; and Huertas is charged with dereliction of duty ....
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POPSal-Qaeda/Taliban Central Command Decommissioned By Pakistan's Army Damadola, in the district of Bajaur near the Afghan border, was the scene of the 2006 US drone strike that targeted Al-Qaeda number two Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who managed to escape. Troops overran the complex in an operation launched in January, he said. "There were Egyptians, Uzbeks, Chechens and Afghans killed in the operation," he said. Pakistan is under huge US pressure to eliminate Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked groups which use its semi-autonomous tribal belt to plot attacks against Western troops fighting in Afghanistan.
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POPSExclusive: Unknown DOJ Lawyers Identified Before joining the Justice Department, Jonathan Cedarbaum, now an official with the Office of Legal Counsel, was part of a "firm-wide effort" to represent six Bosnian-Algerian detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, according to the web site of the firm WilmerHale. Alongside Cedarbaum in the Office of Legal Counsel now is Karl Thompson, who while working for the firm O'Melveny & Myers became one of seven attorneys to represent Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen who was captured in Afghanistan in 2002 and transferred to Guantanamo Bay. Similarly, in November 2006, Tali Farhadian, now an official in the Office of the Attorney General, was an attorney with the firm Debevoise & Plimpton when she helped file a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, urging the federal appeals court to hear the case of Ali al-Marri, the only "enemy combatant" at the time being held on U.S. soil.
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POPSSome Peace Time Deaths in Iraq Pretty routine stuff I dare say. The internicine tensions remain, I would suggest. The geopolitical tensions increase but I don't want to complicate things.
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POPSWelcome to the world of Obama al Qaeda wants to destroy us economically - and who have the radical muslims produced, but the ultimate stealth muslim himself - the boy king....
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POPSZeitoun Just finished reading this incredible book. A must read.
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POPSA three-way diplomatic meeting in Saudi Arabia India goes to Talk to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia uses meeting to talk to Pakistan too. Grin - so why didn't they just call the Pakistani President and say come on over lets have a tea and talk in Saudi Arabia? Hmmm? Maybe the Saudi's could host a meeting of nations with significant Islamic populations and have a sit down on terrorism that is in part fueled by all the schools the Saudi's have given money to over the last 20 years?
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POPSZerobama's stupid budgetary decisions increase unemployment This 23,000 lost jobs is only for Florida. Doesn't count Texas. In actuality this is just Obama's vendetta against states that didn't vote for "hope and change" Taking his marching orders from al Qaeda, Obama is cutting our military, our space program, and decimating our economy.
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